[T]he scales of the ament in the salix rosea, rose-willow, grow into leaves; and produce other kinds of monsters.

[…] she glanced about her in an imperious, challenging sort of way, with looks and gestures that clearly were unstudied.

The indices are nowcasted at a very low level, meaning thousands of nowcasts. Attention has been focuesed on the nowcasts that fail validation checks.

Thus the unendurable burden on the temples was lightened. For instance, the annual surtaxes of Buddhist temples' landholdings of Hsia-p'u county which had amounted to 515 taels in the late Ming dropped to 309 taels after Ch'ien-lung's edict, and to 229 taels soon afterwards.